Economies worldwide are facing some of the most unpredictable times caused by the pandemic. To help you navigate the economy in the upcoming year is John Horn, Professor of Practice of Economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He joins Jim Pfeifer to shed light on the current state of the country’s economy and where it’s headed in terms of inflation. The pandemic has undeniably boggled multiple economies and has had cascading effects with supply chain issues, r...
Feb 13, 2022•39 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast Agricultural land isn’t a commonly discussed asset class, but that doesn’t mean it’s not valuable. Many investors are betting on the increased value, and profit, that farmlands will bring. In this episode, Jim Pfeifer talks farmland and everything in between with the cofounder and CEO of Farmfundr, Brandon Silveira. Brandon gets into the nuts and bolts of investing in agricultural land, how to add value to your investment, and finding the right crops to support. Want to learn more about investin...
Feb 06, 2022•35 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast When investing, you need to do your research like a ninja - you need to know the market, the industry, and all the factors around your investment. Join your host Jim Pfeifer as he sits down with Cashflow Ninja, M.C. Laubscher. M.C. is the founder of Producers Wealth and Cashflow Ninja. In this episode you will learn how to find sponsors and people you can trust when it comes to investing and hear about some of the different real estate assets M.C. focuses on, such cell tower syndication high cas...
Jan 30, 2022•47 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. But what if we tell you there’s a way to get around the latter? Jim Pfeifer talks to Tom Wheelwright, CPA, founder and CEO of WealthAbility and the best-selling author of Tax-Free Wealth, about how to build massive wealth through tax-free strategies that permanently lower your taxes. Tom is a leading wealth and tax expert, global speaker, and entrepreneur. He specializes in helping entrepreneurs and investors build wealth through practical a...
Jan 23, 2022•46 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Do you want to invest but don't know where to start? Join us in this episode with our guest, Denis Shapiro, the Managing Partner at SIH Capital Group LLC, to gain valuable insights on where to start. Denis started investing in traditional stocks at 14. Unlike most investors who focus on specific investment assets, he still looks at both traditional and alternative investments. Now, he is helping people diversify their funds and investments through SIH Capital Group. Denis also wrote the book The...
Jan 16, 2022•52 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast There’s no doubt that the benefits of diversifying your assets are numerous, but how do you go about doing it? On today’s show, Jim Pfeifer welcomes Matt Picheny, the Founder of Picheny and a member of the Left Field Investors community. Matt is also the author of Backstage Guide To Real Estate where he shares his journey to earning passive income. Matt focuses on multifamily, diversifying in terms of geography, asset class, or operators. He explains how focusing on one niche allows you to grow ...
Jan 09, 2022•51 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast What are you looking for when you search for assets? For Lee Harris, the President and CEO of Cohen-Esrey, population growth, job growth, and median income in a one to three-mile radius are vital traits. Cohen-Esrey is a family of companies involved in apartment management, affordable housing, development, apartment acquisition and ownership, tax credit, syndication, and construction. Today, Lee talks with host Jim Pfeifer about why it’s essential to search for assets the programmatic way. When ...
Jan 02, 2022•41 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Risk is as big a part of investing. So how do you mitigate or minimize risk and maximize your reward? In this episode, that’s the conversation as physician and investor, Ian Kurth, shares his insights with Jim Pfeifer. Ian discusses how he got into investing, the different investment assets he has handled over the years and his take on the Bitcoin craze. Want to learn more about investing from a seasoned investor? Tune in as Ian and Jim share their experiences. To see the full show notes and tra...
Dec 26, 2021•50 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Nathan Clayberg is an Assistant Vice President at MLG Capital. MLG Capital is a private real estate firm that has been in the industry for over 30 years with over 22,000 multifamily units under management. In this episode, Nathan discusses how state taxes impact fund investing, the importance of choosing the right sponsor and what asset classes he favors right now. Nathan talks about why he favors the fund approach rather than a single asset syndication. One of the main advantages he sees with f...
Dec 12, 2021•39 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Josh McCallen is a nationally recognized capital syndicator, hospitality investor, turnaround specialist, conference speaker, innovator, builder & developer with a track record for the development of exceptional resort properties and growing world-class operational teams. Josh was also a guest on Episode #2 of the Passive Investing from Left Field Podcast. In this episode, Josh talks about forcing equity through resort investing and service that revives the soul! Josh explains his two companies ...
Dec 05, 2021•43 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Bartholomew is a financial advisor and a beginning passive investor. He invested in his first two deals with a group using Tribevest. He has been listening to the podcast and making a list of questions and agreed to be a guest on the show to get his questions answered – in order to help us all become better investors! Questions asked and answered in this episode: · What is the difference between Cost Segregation and Bonus Depreciation? What is Depreciation Recapture? · What is a Real Estate ...
Nov 28, 2021•59 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Spencer Hilligoss is the CEO & Co-Founder of Madison Investing, a real estate syndicator partnering on over $800M in multifamily and self-storage assets under management. He is both a passive investor and active syndicator with a history in the financial technology industry. In this episode, Spencer discusses matching your investment strategy to your strengths, building your own investing criteria, and understanding the structure and value of the general partners in a syndication. Spencer discus...
Nov 21, 2021•47 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast Liz Faircloth is the Co-Founder of The DeRosa Group, a developer of commercial and residential property with a mission to revitalize urban America. She is also the co-Founder of The Real Estate InvestHER community - a platform to empower women to live a financially free and balanced life on their own terms. She is co-Host of the The Real Estate InvestHer podcast and author of an Amazon Bestseller – “The Only Woman in the Room – Knowledge and Inspiration from 20 Successful Real Estate Women Inves...
Nov 14, 2021•48 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Peter Badger is the Chief Strategy Officer at Farmfolio. Their mission is to make farmland ownership easy for everyone. Peter has been an avid real estate investor for years and educator with a current focus on overseas farmland. In this episode, Peter discusses why overseas farmland is a worthy investment, how it works and why the returns are better than U.S. farmland. Peter talks about multifamily and overseas farmland – the two asset classes which thrived for him during pandemic. He also disc...
Nov 07, 2021•42 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Ivan Barratt is a multifamily owner, manager, and syndicator who specializes in large apartment communities in the Midwest. Since 2015, he has raised nearly $150 million in equity and acquired over 5,000 multifamily units. Today, Ivan focuses his time on equity finance, acquisitions, and company strategy. His company, BAM Capital, manages nearly $593 million in syndicated assets. In this episode, Ivan discusses why he prefers multifamily apartments, why structuring debt effectively is critical a...
Oct 31, 2021•49 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Tania Mirchandani is the Vice President of Capital Markets at Clear Capital. She worked in wealth management for nearly 15 years at Goldman Sachs. She has been involved in multifamily real estate management, operations and acquisitions for 5 years and she joined Clear Capital at the beginning of this year. In this episode, Tania talks about the importance of trust and confidence in a sponsor, the different information needs that individual investors have and some important deal metrics to analyz...
Oct 24, 2021•48 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Whitney is a real estate investor and personal finance trainer working to help others on their path towards financial independence. She is the founder of ASH Wealth and the Investor Accelerator Program which helps investors develop a plan to reach their real estate and financial goals. Today, Whitney is a partner in $700M+ of real estate assets, including 5,000+ residential units (SFR, MF, MHP, and assisted living) and 1,430+ self-storage units. She has been a guest on multiple podcasts, includi...
Oct 17, 2021•47 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Jeff Anzalone is the Debt Free Doctor. He is a periodontist and became concerned that his family only had one source of income – so he learned how to build multiple streams of passive income and now he is helping others to learn as well. In this episode, Jeff discusses how he started learning about finance from Dave Ramsey and then moved on to learn from Robert Kiyosaki, how he screens sponsors and the importance of taking action. Jeff talks about his research that showed him that 90% of million...
Oct 10, 2021•42 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Kathy Fettke is the CEO of Real Wealth Network, host of the Real Wealth Show and author of Retire Rich with Rentals. She helps people build wealth with cash flowing real estate through single family rentals, syndications and more. She has grown an amazing network and built a great Community and shares our focus on networking and education. In this episode, Kathy talks about how she got started in real estate, the value of quality property management and the power of a network and community. Kath...
Oct 03, 2021•48 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast For this episode, we are releasing our exclusive MASTERCLASS on building wealth through passive Real Estate. In this 9-part MASTERCLASS, passive investing expert Jim Pfeifer, founder of Left Field Investors, sits down with Tribevest's Julian McClurkin. Jim reveals how to put your money to work through strategies that only recently became available to the average investor. Millions of people are wisely reallocating their recent gains from the stock market (and Crypto!) and diversifying to tangibl...
Sep 26, 2021•44 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast For this episode, we are releasing our exclusive MASTERCLASS on building wealth through passive Real Estate. In this 9-part MASTERCLASS, passive investing expert Jim Pfeifer, founder of Left Field Investors, sits down with Tribevest's Julian McClurkin. Jim reveals how to put your money to work through strategies that only recently became available to the average investor. Millions of people are wisely reallocating their recent gains from the stock market (and Crypto!) and diversifying to tangibl...
Sep 19, 2021•43 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Chad Ackerman is a senior consultant working for a major bank as well as one of the co-founders of Left Field Investors. He has been a major contributor to the development of all of the Infielder tools we have been developing this year and is working towards his goal of financial freedom. In this episode, Chad discusses how he got started in passive investing, using velocity of money to increase his returns and why he uses Tribevest for group investing. Chad talks about how he started in real es...
Sep 12, 2021•48 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Jorge Newberry is CEO and Chairman of AHP Servicing LLC and American Homeowner Preservation LLC, which crowdfund the purchase of nonperforming mortgages from banks at big discounts, then share the discounts with struggling homeowners. He is also Founder and CEO of Debt Cleanse Group Legal Services, a nationwide legal plan to help consumers and small businesses get out of debt. In this episode, Jorge discusses his rise and fall in multifamily investing and how he got out of debt and started new b...
Sep 05, 2021•53 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Christopher Saylor is the founder and Managing Partner at Pikes Peak Capital, which manages high-return distressed real estate funds. Pikes Peak Capital buys and sells single-family residential real estate across the nation and provides a path to homeownership for low-to-moderate-income individuals. They typically look for opportunities others dismiss as too difficult or too different and have managed 4 funds with over $10M in transactions in 36 states. In this episode, Christopher discusses how...
Aug 29, 2021•46 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Lane Kawaoka owns over 4,500 rental units and is the leader of “Hui Deal Pipeline Club” which has acquired over $600 Million dollars of real estate by syndicating over $70 Million Dollars of private equity since 2016. Lane partners with investors who want to build their passive portfolio but are too busy to invest actively. He is also the host the Simple Passive Cash Flow Podcast. In this episode, Lane talks about his unique way to screen sponsors, the metrics he uses to evaluate deals and his t...
Aug 22, 2021•47 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Bob Fraser is the Co-Founder & Principal at Aspen Funds, a residential mortgage fund. He worked in tech and in the stock market before starting his notes investing fund eight years ago. In this episode, he talks about investing in notes, his outlook for the economy, why he is not concerned about inflation and ends with a discussion on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Bob explains that buying notes is just buying mortgages on real estate. He talks about Aspen funds and how they focus on notes on sin...
Aug 15, 2021•53 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Paul Moore is the Founder & Managing Partner of Wellings Capital, a real estate private equity firm focused on mobile home parks and self-storage facilities. He is an author, podcaster, a regular contributor to Bigger Pockets and an experienced real estate investor. In this episode, Paul talks about forcing appreciation, speculating versus investing, and some of the metrics he looks at for mobile home parks and self-storage facilities. Paul talks about forcing appreciation and compressing cap ra...
Aug 08, 2021•44 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Gino Barbaro is one of the founders of Jake & Gino, LLC – a real estate education company. He is a principal at Rand Partners, a multi-family syndication company and a certified professional coach as well as an author and podcast host. In this episode, Gino talks about the importance of mindset, how to evaluate a sponsor and some of the metrics he uses when evaluating a deal. Gino talks about the importance of educating yourself and having the right investing mindset – if you think you can do it...
Aug 01, 2021•48 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Buck Joffrey is a surgeon turned real estate professional with nearly $1 billion in real estate transactions including $400M in current real estate assets under management. He is also a financial educator focused on alternative assets. He runs a fantastic Community called the Wealth Formula Network and is host of the Wealth Formula Podcast as well. In this episode, Buck talks about the keys to forcing equity, investing in multifamily, self-storage and ATMs, and how to vet a sponsor. Buck talks a...
Jul 25, 2021•45 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Eric is a Founding Partner of Clear Capital, LLC and an Adjunct Professor with UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. He is the host of Focus on Facts Podcast and was a guest at the May 24th Left Field Investors monthly meeting. In this episode, Eric talks about sourcing deals, abundance of liquidity in almost all markets, inflation now and in the future, wealth inequality and how all of these things effect real estate. Eric discusses how he got his start in real estate investing in vari...
Jul 18, 2021•48 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 
